I need a vacation

I need a vacation. From everything. From work, from friends, fromrelationships, from the Internet. I need a total reset switch for mybrain. Problem is, I've totally forgotten how to vacation. I spend a weekaround Christmas with Becca's family in Atlanta, but that's really more oftheir thing. It's not really a vacation for me. I'm not doing what I'dlike to be doing. For my birthday, I tried a three-day weekend of doingnothing, and while restful, I didn't really get anything out of it. Ifailed to catch my breath.

It's just that life is slipping by me, and I need to do something aboutthat. Part of that involves reducing noise for a bit while I work on beingmore intentional; more active and less reactive.

I still prize my PA cabin retreat as probably the most restorativevacation I've ever had. I'd never imagined that walking till your feetbled and chopping wood till your bruises had blisters could be sorelaxing. Wanderlust is refreshing. Movement is relaxing. Dynamism isrestful.